David Kirkpatrick is near the Libyan border reporting for The New York Times. He says that those coming across the border say that there's fighting in the northwest, and that the situation is violent and dire inside the country. At the same time, he says, Libyans are ready to live in a country free from the dictatorship of Col. Gadhafi.
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